{"id":26341,"date":"2020-11-13T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26341"},"modified":"2020-11-13T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:59:11","slug":"a-review-of-the-2017-film-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26341","title":{"rendered":"A review of the 2017 film &#8220;Mother!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I should have done my homework but, in the middle of the second lockdown of a global pandemic, I was struggling to find an interesting film that I hadn&#8217;t already seen. Then I found this movie with Jennifer Lawrence in the lead and I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of hers since &#8220;Winter&#8217;s Bone&#8221; a decade ago. Plus the support cast &#8211; Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kristen Wiig &#8211; was stellar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only at the end did I find that the work was both written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. Now I&#8217;ve seen six of his earlier films and so I know how strange some of his work can be. But it was too late. &#8220;Mother&#8221;&#8221; starts like a weird dream and slowly morphs into a fiendish nightmare with some truly disturbing scenes. And I have no idea what it all means. But Lawrence is excellent.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have done my homework but, in the middle of the second lockdown of a global pandemic, I was struggling to find an interesting film that I hadn&#8217;t already seen. Then I found this movie with Jennifer Lawrence in the lead and I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of hers since &#8220;Winter&#8217;s Bone&#8221; a decade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26342,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341\/revisions\/26342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}